88 Contemporary Evolution. 



Yet this is literally what has taken place in Prussia with 

 the applause, mirabile dictn y of " LIBERALS." It is of 

 the A, B, C of our system, that no man should be pun- 

 ished without a trial. Yet in Germany, because citizens 

 happen voluntarily to belong to a private society which 

 has not a fragment of power over its members beyond 

 what such members voluntarily concede nay, even 

 because police authorities choose, without evidence pro- 

 duced, to say that any citizens are affiliated to such a 

 society they have, not only been held up to public 

 ignominy by official utterances, but have actually been 

 torn away from friends and relations and their locomotion 

 restricted within narrow limits, or they have been expelled 

 the country, and their very persons, in some instances, 

 treated with cruel violence. 



These citizens are meantime accused of no definite 

 crime ; in spite of demands, they are brought to no 

 trial and have no opportunity given them of self-justifi- 

 cation. 



As we said just now, the effect of bias could hardly 

 go further than to make Englishmen, who blame the 

 expulsion of the Moors and Jews from Spain, applaud 

 such acts. 



And what is the authority that dares thus to outrage 

 and trample on the primary rights of citizens ? The 

 German government is a modern one ; it is based on the 

 modern basis popular will, not on an asserted and 



